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From a small Paterson apartment up the street from a grammar school, an area supplier provided street-level drug dealers with heroin, cocaine and crack, authorities said following a raid.
Led by detectives from their Narcotics Division, city police seized more than two pounds of crack and powdered cocaine combined, along with 1,560 heroin folds and more than $5,900 in proceeds, they said.
They arrested five people, they said, including a woman who lives in the Main Street apartment with three of her children.
Also collected were various materials used to package the drugs for sale.
Detectives watched as Maisonet Cruz, 48, emerged from the residence off Route 80, gave a bag of drugs to Juan Rodriguez, 32, of Montville, PA and then went back inside early Tuesday afternoon, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said